Sonnets Squared

Love poems inspired by the Short & Sweet challenge (though I'm inelligible).

Dedicated to R. Angeli, a master of musical variations, prose poems, and sonnet forms, both old & new.

I.

the note I sent

to sow the seed

to want, to need

I know not how it went

the love I’d lent

my soul to feed

you tore and rent

but I will come if you will lead

for you I’ve bled

the pain of love

your head I’d turn

a word not said

that I’ve need of

for you I’d burn

II.

your head I’d turn

for you I’ve bled

a word not said

for you I’d burn

his wage to earn

when Amor has fled

with wind wing sped

from Jove as erne

the note I sent

to sow the seed

you tore and rent

my soul in deed

I know not how it went

but I will come if you will lead

III.

to sow the seed

the note I sent

I know not how it went

my soul in deed

to want, to need

the love I’d lent

you tore and rent

but I will come if you will lead

for you I’ve bled

for you I’d burn

the pain of love

the word not said

your head I’d turn

that I’ve need of

IV.

the pain of love

for you I’ve bled

a word not said

that I’ve need of

like bolt of Jove

when Amor had fled

with wing wind sped

and dart to die of

the note I sent

to sow the seed

you tore and rent

my soul in deed

I know not how it went

but I will come if you will lead